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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | connection; friendship |
| Synonyms: | accord, affair, affiliation, affinity, alliance, analogy, appositeness, association, bond, communication, conjunction, consanguinity, consociation, contact, contingency, correlation, dependence, dependency, exchange, homogeneity, hookup, interconnection, interrelation, interrelationship, kinship, liaison, likeness, link, marriage, nearness, network, parallel, pertinence, pertinency, proportion, rapport, ratio, relation, relativity, relevance, similarity, tie, tie-in, tie-up |
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| Main Entry: | acquaintance |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | knowledge of something through experience |
| Synonyms: | awareness, cognizance, conversance, familiarity, fellowship, grasp, intimacy, ken, relationship, understanding |
| Antonyms: | ignorance, strangeness, unfamiliarity |
| Main Entry: | adultery |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | extramarital affair |
| Synonyms: | affair, carrying on, cheating, extracurricular activity, fling, fornication, hanky-panky, immorality, infidelity, matinee, playing around, relationship, thing*, two-timing |
| Antonyms: | faithfulness |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | affair |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | illicit sexual relationship |
| Synonyms: | affaire, amour, carrying on, extracurricular activity, fling, goings-on, hanky-panky, intimacy, intrigue, liaison, love, playing around, relationship, rendezvous, romance, thing together, two-timing |
| Main Entry: | affiliation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | association with an organization |
| Synonyms: | alliance, amalgamation, banding together, bunch, cahoots, clan, coalition, combination, confederation, conjunction, connection, crew, crowd, gang, hookup, incorporation, joining, league, merging, mob, outfit, partnership, relationship, ring, syndicate, tie-in, union |
| Main Entry: | affinity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | similarity |
| Synonyms: | alikeness, alliance, analogy, association, closeness, connection, correspondence, kinship, likeness, relation, relationship, resemblance, semblance, similitude |
| Notes: | an affinity is a relationship by marriage and consanguinity is a blood relationship |
| Antonyms: | dissimilarity |
| Main Entry: | amour |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | romance |
| Synonyms: | affair, entanglement, liaison, love, love affair, passion, relationship |
| Antonyms: | dislike, hate, hatred |
| Main Entry: | analogy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | agreement, similarity |
| Synonyms: | affinity, alikeness, comparison, correlation, correspondence, equivalence, homology, likeness, metaphor, parallel, relation, relationship, resemblance, semblance, simile, similitude |
| Notes: | analogy is when two different things share characteristics that lead to a comparison between them; an analogue is one of the things compared |
| Antonyms: | disagreement, dissimilarity, unlikeness |
| Main Entry: | association |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | friendship |
| Synonyms: | acquaintance, acquaintanceship, affiliation, agreement, assistance, camaraderie, companionship, comradeship, conjunction, cooperation, familiarity, fellowship, fraternization, frequenting, friendliness, hookup, intimacy, membership, participation, partnership, relation, relationship |
| Antonyms: | aloneness, antagonism, disunion, isolation, opposition, rivalry, seclusion, separation, solitude |
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